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E. U. NORTON. HAY GARRIER.

No. 309,157. Patented Dec. 9, 1884,

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ELIPHALET NORTON, OF BELVIDERE, ILL., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ALBERTWRATE, HENRY LIST, AND SAMUEL VVYLDE, OF SAME PLACE.

HAY CARRlER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,157, dated December9, 188%. Application filed April 9, 1884. (X model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELIPHALET O. NORTON,

a citizen of the United States, residing in Belvidere, in the county ofBoone and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Hay-Carrier,of which the following is aspccification.

This invention relates to a class of devices employed mainly inconnection with power forks to unload hay from the wagon and de liver itin the place of deposit.

It consists in a carrier mounted to move freely on a suspended way, andis provided with a combined automatic carriagedetent I 5 and trippingmechanism, and a combined automatic rope-detent and tripping mechanism.These devices in their construction and arrangement, and their severalcombinations with the necessary parts to produce a complete carrier, allof which will be hereinafter more fully described, constitute thesubjectmatter of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is an isometrical representationof a hay-carrier 25. embodying my lnvention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation.Fig. 3 is also a side elevation, in which a portion of the carriage isomitted to more clearly show the construction; and Fig. 4 is atransverse vertical section on dotted line X on Fig. 2.

The vehicle of my improved carrier is composed of cast and wroughtmaterial, and the like sides of the frame, consisting of theverticalportions A and the horizontal portions B, are produced in right-angleform. The end portions of the vertical sides are provided with uprisingportions to, of ear form, fitted with stud-journals b, projecting fromtheir inner faces.

At 0 are represented traveling wheels mounted to revolve on thestud-journals b. The side plates, A, are provided at their forward endswith pendent portions 0, and one of these pendants is provided with atubular stud-journal, d, projecting from its inner face,

and is fitted to receive a screw-bolt, e, which is passed through thependent portions 0 and through the tubular stud-j OllIllEtltl, andserves to fix this forward end of the plates to each other. The rearends of the side plates, A, are 0 provided with pendants 7L, and one ofthese pendants is provided with a tubular studjournal, h, projectingfrom its inner face, in every particular substantially the same as thetubular stud-journal d, and is fitted to receive 5 5 a screw-bolt, i,which is passed through the pendants h and through the tubularstudjournal h, and serves to fix this rear end of the plates to eachother, producing a carriage of a suitable construction to receiveasuitable 6o way-beam, D.

At E is represented a sheave of pulley form, having its peripherygrooved to receive a rope. This sheave E is supported upon the tubularjournal h between the pendants h at the rear 6 end of the carriage, torevolve on its journalsupport between the pendants.

At F is represented an automatic operating rope-detent of lever form,having a pivotal support on the tubular stud-j ournal d between thependants c at the forward end of the can riage. The rear end, k, of thisrope-detent F is fitted in jaw form, having its under face serrated orprovided with teeth to engage the rope upon the sheave E, as shown inFig. 3, to prevent the rope running from the sheave. The forward end, Z,of this rope-detent F is produced in adownward-curving form to overridea trip stop-block, m, fixed to the under face of the way-beam D in sucha manner as to disengage the detent from the rope, as shown in Fig. 2.

At a is represented a link pivoted in the lever-detent F at a pointrearward of its pivotal connection with the carriage in such a mannerthat a weight upon the link, or on a rope, L, connected with the link,will operate to hold the detent-jaw k in contact with the rope on thepulley.

At H is represented an automatic operato ing carriage-detent of leverform, provided with a weight, 0, at its rear end, and having a pivotalsupport on the tubular stud-journal d between the pendants c at theforward end of the carriage. The forward end of this carriage -detent isproduced in down -curving latch form to override the trip stop-block m,and its hook-latch p, by means of its weighted rear end, will engage theblock m,'to hold the carried as may be convenient.

carriage in connection therewith in a detachable manner.

At I is represented a sheave provided with a depending swivel-hook, s,to receive a suitable power hay-fork, a portion of which is shown at K.

At L is represented a hoisting-rope having one end, as at t, fixed tothe link n, pivoted in the rope detent. This hoisting-rope L from itsconnection with the link it passes under the fork-sheave I, thence overthe sheave E in the rear end of the carriage, from which its free end Nextends to connect with the power employed to operate the mechanism.

In the use of my improved carrier the waybeam D is suspended to anysuitable support by means of suspension-rods 1? extending centrallythrough the way-beam. This waybeam is preferably inclined in such amanner as to cause the carriage to gravitate toward the trip stop-blockm, which is placed vertically over or as nearly over the hay to beelevated and NVhen the carrier has descended the inclined way-beam toengage the trip'stop, the carriage-detent, by means of its down-curvinghook-latch and weighted construction, will engage the tripstop and holdthe carriage in position on the Way-beam, and the rope-detent, by meansof its curved forward end overriding the tripstop, will be disengagedfrom the ropeand permit the fork to descend, as represented in Fig. 1,to be fixed in the hay to be elevated. WVhen the fork is elevated, thefork-sheave I will engage the weight 0 of the carriage-detent anddisengage its hook-latch from the stop, as shown in the dottedlines inFig. 2, and permit the carriage to ascend the inclined waybeam. Thismovement of the carriage on the way-beam will disengage the rope-detentfrom the trip-stop, and the weight of the loaded fork upon thehoisting-rope will cause the foot of the rope-detent to engage thehoistingrope on the sheave E, and prevent it running from the sheave andhold the loaded fork elevated, as represented in Fig. 3. The continueddraft upon the draft branch N of the hoistingrope will cause thecarriage, with the loaded fork, to ascend the inclined way until itreaches the place of deposit, when by means of a triprope connected withthe fork the hay is dropped from the fork. \Vhen the fork is unloaded,the tension on the draft branch N of the hoisting-rope will relax andpermit the carriage'to descend the inclined way-beam to engage thetrip-stop, disengage the rope-detent, and permit the fork to d scend, tobe again loaded.

I claim as my invention 1. The herein-described carriage,consisting ofthe like sides composed of the vertical and horizontal portions, thetravelers to engage ELIPHALET c. NORTON.

\Vitnesses:

'JAcoB BEHEL,

A. O. BEHEL.

